Unfortunately I don't know who owns blacklist-a. That is still a mystery. It's a bot and I don't think its owner even followups on it like I do with mine.
It's good to include references depending on the tags you use. We do have academics here and depending on the subject or your target audience that can help you gain followers.
I think that putting it together as you have does add some originality to it. Most users here just grab entire articles and copy them. It really does become an issue of spam when no one adds anything to what they copy. There are times I've found the same crypto article copied dozens of times in one week mostly by accounts that don't even engage their followers.
I don't think the problem is the subject of your post but that the majority of the community from the beginning has tried to be different than other social media platforms and value content creators. I personally consider opinion posts to have value and I think that steemit is a great place for it.
I haven't had time to do any opinion pieces in quite a while but I try to do 25% copy to 75% original.
@patrice
yea didnt he/she/ze didnt even post a comment. but still a minnow so dont waste your time on earth worrying about it. Sorry I even mentioned it.
From now on I will include references when I do this style of post.
I will not let littleboy silence me if he wants to declare a ratio, or if steemcleaners does I will follow it to the extent I think it is just and helps steem. But for anything that is not purely spam, 100% unoriginal, I will only support your right to take punitive actions if your policies are clearly written down and the person is giving a pass on their first post and noticed and actions only taken on 2nd and further post so long as there is not any scintilla of creativity/proof of brain, or it violates some copy/paste ratio/clear objective rules that are uniformly enforced (at least once reported to the process).
I look forward to reading your stuff if I stick around. But Littleboy bullying me and downvoting posts as retribution including ones that advertise on peer hub me selling high quality USA Fender Strat and Gibson 335 and video game controller at fair prices in steem hurts the platform. Steem is going to fail at getting noormal people to put up with this especially from hypocrites. I understand steemcleaners gave littleboy a warning and an offer to remove the downvote that he didnt extend to me?
I hope you will consider reading my next post putting all this into context and hopefully helping the community have a conversation over copy/paste and retributive downvotes and policing the police in the real world and on steem.
Any way thanks for your time. I hope the day went well for you.